Bernard LORJOU

Although a designer of silk fabrics in his youth, and a designer of large-format paintings used as manifestos during exhibitions ("the plague in Beauce" from 1953 measured, for example, 250 x 360 cm), Lorjou's interest in tapestry was late: perhaps he considered the harshness and robustness of his style inappropriate for weaving (his close associates, Rebeyrolle, Mottet, Sébire, ... were themselves never woven). In the 1970s, his style became more oneiric and less expressionist: it was then that he provided cartoons for the Pinton workshop.

The chromatic range, the bird patterns, are characteristic of Lorjou from the 70s; the material of the paintings is rendered in tapestry by the differences in weaving points.